His grandfather Wesley Branch Rickey invented the baseball farm system, a chain of levels of development teams that serve a major league baseball club.

* December 17 – Samuel Wesley, English poet and father of the Wesley brothers ( d. 1735 )

* December 18 – Charles Wesley, English Methodist leader, brother of John Wesley ( d. 1788 )

Mary Wesley, CBE ( 24 June 191230 December 2002 ) was an English novelist.

Mary Wesley died from gout and a blood disorder on 30 December 2002, aged 90, at her home in Totnes, Devon.

Charles Wesley ( 18 December 1707 – 29 March 1788 ) was an English leader of the Methodist movement, son of Anglican clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergyman John Wesley and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley ( the Younger ), and father of musician Samuel Wesley, and grandfather of musician Samuel Sebastian Wesley.

On 25 February 1754 Taylor laid the first stone of the Octagon Chapel, Norwich, opened 12 May 1756, and described by John Wesley ( 23 December 1757 ) as ‘ perhaps the most elegant one in all Europe ,’ and too fine for ‘ the old coarse gospel .’ In his opening sermon, Taylor, who had received ( 6 April ) the diploma ( dated 20 January ) of D. D.

At the end of December 1757, John Wesley was shown around the Octagon Chapel, as an invited dignitary.

* December 18 Charles Wesley, Church of England clergyman and one of the architects of Methodism

* December 17-Samuel Wesley, poet and author ( died 1735 )

Wesley Kanne Clark, Sr. ( born December 23, 1944 ) is a retired general of the United States Army.

Graham appeared on Nip / Tuck ( December 2009 ) episode " Wesley Clovis " as Mr. Martel, the father of a murdered 17-year-old.

Wesley Cheek Ferrell ( February 2, 1908 – December 9, 1976 ) was an American professional baseball player.

* December 17 – A CBS News / New York Times poll of likely Democratic primary voters shows Howard Dean getting 23 % of the vote, with Wesley Clark at 10 %, Joe Lieberman at 10 %, Richard Gephardt at 6 %, Al Sharpton at 5 %, John Kerry at 4 %, John Edwards at 2 %, Carol Moseley-Braun at 1 %, Dennis Kucinich at 1 %, and the remaining 28 % undecided.

Sherburne Wesley Burnham ( December 12, 1838 – March 11, 1921 ) was an American astronomer.

John Wesley on Tuesday 19 December 1780.

Though born in Papakura on 3 December 1983, Stephen attended Sandspit Primary School in Waiuku then four years at Waiuku College where his father is a long-serving teacher, before spending his seventh form at Wesley College.

Neely went on to have a Hall of Fame career with the Bruins, recording three 50-goal seasons, and Wesley had a solid 20 year career.

The 1950s roster now included Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Stan Kenton, Judy Garland, The Andrews Sisters, Jackie Gleason, Jane Froman, Wesley Tuttle, Ray Anthony, Andy Griffith, Shirley Bassey, Merle Travis, The Kingston Trio ( who in 1960 would account for 20 % of all record sales for Capitol ), Dean Martin, The Four Freshmen, Al Martino, Dinah Shore and Nancy Wilson ( actually signed in 1960 to Capitol ).

James Wesley Marsters ( born August 20, 1962 ) is an American actor and musician.

Such films can cost as much as $ 20 million ( about a third of the average cost of a Hollywood release ) Some direct-to-video releases also feature moderately well-known actors, such as Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lundgren, and Cuba Gooding, Jr .. Salaries for such actors range from $ 2 to $ 4 million ( Van Damme ) to $ 4. 5 to $ 10 million ( Seagal ).

James Wesley " Bubber " Miley ( April 3, 1903 – May 20, 1932 ) was an American early jazz trumpet and cornet player, specializing in the use of the plunger mute.

Joseph Hart ( 219 ); William Gadsby ( 173 ); Isaac Watts ( 145 ) John Berridge ( 72 ); John Newton ( 63 ) John Kent ( 51 ); Charles Wesley ( 41 ); Thomas Kelly ( 34 ); Samuel Medley ( 31 ); Anne Steele ( 27 ); Augustus M. Toplady ( 24 ); Richard Burnham ( 22 ); Henry Fowler ( 20 ); William Cowper ( 18 ); Joseph Swain ( 18 ); Daniel Herbert ( 12 ); Benjamin Beddome ( 10 ); John Fawcett ( 10 ); William Hammond ( 10 ); John Stevens ( 9 ); John Adams ( 9 ); Phillip Doddridge ( 8 ); John Cennick ( 6 ).

Holland Smith was born on April 20, 1882 in Russell County, Alabama to John Wesley Smith and his wife Cornelia Caroline McTyeire.

He enjoyed a prolific school career for Wesley College, with a highest score of 243 and best bowling figures of 8 for 20.

He also became the youngest Filipino GM ever at 20 ( until Wesley So surpassed it ), beating out Eugenio Torre's record by about two years.

The bombing killed four young African-American girls ( Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, and Denise McNair ) and injured more than 20 other people.

John Wesley Donaldson ( February 20, 1891 – April 12, 1970 ) was an American baseball pitcher in Pre-Negro league and Negro league baseball.

However, while serving their sentences, they were allowed to leave the prison regularly due to support from politicians such as 20th Ward alderman Morris Eller and bribes of $ 20, 000 to Sheriff Peter Hoffman and prison Warden Wesley Westbrook.

** Hiram Wesley Evans, American leader of the Ku Klux Klan ( b. 1881 )

Horace Parnell Tuttle ( March 17, 1837 – August 16, 1923 ) was an American astronomer, a Civil War veteran and brother of astronomer Charles Wesley Tuttle ( Nov. 1, 1829-July 17, 1881 ).

While he worked at the Geological Survey he became good friends with John Wesley Powell, the powerful and influential second director of the US Geological Survey ( 1881 – 1894 ) and the director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution.

* Possibility of apostasy – Wesley fully accepted the Arminian view that genuine Christians could apostatize and lose their salvation, as his famous sermon " A Call to Backsliders " clearly demonstrates.

* Arminianism is Pelagian ( or Semi-Pelagian ), denying original sin and total depravity – No system of Arminianism founded on Arminius or Wesley denies original sin or total depravity ; both Arminius and Wesley strongly affirmed that man's basic condition is one in which he cannot be righteous, understand God, or seek God.

* Arminianism denies Jesus ' substitutionary payment for sins – Both Arminius and Wesley believed in the necessity and sufficiency of Christ's atonement through penal substitution.

* 1895 – American Frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.

* 1990 – Wesley Singerman, American voice actor

They were considered a Catholic innovation, not widely practiced until the 18th century, and were opposed vigorously in worship by a number of Protestant Reformers, including Martin Luther ( 1483 – 1546 ), John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ) and John Wesley ( 1703 – 1791 ).

In the nineteenth century Samuel Sebastian Wesley ( 1810 – 1876 ) wrote anthems influenced by contemporary oratorio which stretch to several movements and last twenty minutes or longer.

* Addison – Wesley, a publishing organisation

* 1891 – Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. ( d. 1987 )

* 2002 – Mary Wesley, English novelist ( b. 1912 )

* The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer by Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler and Stanley Gill, Addison – Wesley, Edition 1, 1951.

Extreme Programming Applied: Playing To Win, Addison – Wesley.

* Kent Beck: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Addison – Wesley.

* Kent Beck and Martin Fowler: Planning Extreme Programming, Addison – Wesley.

Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Second Edition, Addison – Wesley.

* Alistair Cockburn: Agile Software Development, Addison – Wesley.

* Martin Fowler: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Addison – Wesley.

Agile Software Development Ecosystems, Addison – Wesley.

* Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson and Chet Hendrickson ( 2000 ), Extreme Programming Installed, Addison – Wesley.

* 1954 – Wesley Strick, American screenwriter

* 1784 – John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.

* John Wesley Young ( 1879 – 1932 ), American mathematician